_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

omg @ terror train

At a college pre-med student fraternity New Year's Eve party, a reluctant Alana Maxwell is coerced into participating in a prank: she lures the shy and awkward pledge Kenny Hampson into a darkened room on the promise of a sexual liaison. However some other students have placed a woman's corpse in the bed.

where does the train come in

maybe they run a train on the corpse

that joke was hugely appreciated by me

i think i actually guffawed

http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-tiphat.gif

i irl guffawed

joke of the day

run a ham on em

the right man in the right thread at the right time apparently

so has anyone here seen the new Aliens blu-ray? supposedly it looks great!

― latebloomer, Monday, December 6, 2010 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have
it does

― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, December 6, 2010 10:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and you're our aliens checkin cuz

― omar little, Monday, December 6, 2010 10:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this made me grin like idiot

funny make me grin like idiot

grin like BEAR

it was a tough opp to pass up

too tough

Huh.

I hope it's a "flight simulator" type ride and not a "fornicate with your horse via your tail simulator" type ride

That ever elusive next level.

fornicate-with-your-horse-via-your-tail simulator, in case that was unclear, although I guess a tail simulator would be a by-product of any such ride anyway

bleh.

So, when does this movie come out?

Supposed to be a big deal, right?

3-D or something?

amon: that Airbender ride has since been rebranded to Snoopy: Surf Dog.

I am fairly certain "I wanna bone blue chicks" is going to be a central theme to this movie.

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Tuesday, December 8, 2009 3:12 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I would like to point out that I was OTM on this thread

Nah, there was just one blue chick, and it was LOVE.

I hope it's a "flight simulator" type ride and not a "fornicate with your horse via your tail simulator" type ride

Whatever it is, get ready to smell it:

“I definitely want to do a flight attraction of some kind,” the director said, citing the “Soarin’ Over California” flying ride at Disney’s California Adventure Park in Anaheim as a personal favorite. “Flying is a big part of the movie. One of the things people liked the most at test screenings was going up into the floating mountains in the flying sequences. We may have banshees, Leonopteryxes, maybe some other flying creatures that don’t make their appearance until the second and third films.”

Disney’s Imagineers will also be tasked with bringing Na’vi culture and the natural world of Pandora to life, along with creating “a general sense of the future,” Cameron said.

“It all needs to be one fabric,” he said. “As long as it’s thematically consistent, as long as it looks and feels and smells the way you imagine it, then we’ve succeeded.”

desperately restating plz plz plz DO NOT INCLUDE SPACE HORSE FUCKING IN THIS SMELLONANZA

"Bonin' Over Pandora"

if this asinine bullshit comes anywhere near anaheim i swear to god

We may have banshees, Leonopteryxes

no one knows what the fuck these things are because no one gives a fuck about avatar beyond "blue cat people boning"

man i can't wait to see if they make an animatronic version of...oh that's right the characters are all boring cliches whose names no one remembers

was discussing this w/ friends today, but I'm kind of bothered at what I perceive as the hypocritical posturing of cinemagoing laypersons against Avatar. Like they don't just dislike it, they wear it as a badge of honor, to demonstrate that they are 'above' such material.

I wouldn't attach such a label to the posters here, because hell you all know way more about movies than I do, but I mean I get kind of sick of arguing with friends in public who just got back from some equally vacuous second-tier tearjerker drama Oscar-bait that happens to pull all the right strings that somehow believe that these pieces are inherently superior to Avatar.

I mean Avatar's plot was threadbare, pedestrian, and didn't have any subtext at ALL, but it was at least functional and didn't get in the way of the visuals (much like a mediocre rapper could have a hit song if he has a killer beat and 'doesn't get in the way' of it). Many of the people who slagged Avatar were fans of "The Town" which had a plot that was equally cookie cutter, no?

idk...I mean doesn't even Morbs like this movie? I loved it and still do.

I mean Avatar's plot was threadbare, pedestrian, and didn't have any subtext at ALL,

You're pretty liberal with your "love." So you can actually sit through this at home?

Many of the people who slagged Avatar were fans of "The Town" which had a plot that was equally cookie cutter, no?

Why would you or anyone equate some massive monocultural event with some random Boston heist movie? I've never heard these brought up in the same sentence. In fact, I've never heard anyone bring up "The Town," ever. In any context.

so you don't know people then?

ie the point was movies with equally generic plot points often get free passes whereas Avatar gets shit on because it's not The Battle of Algiers with blue people

I just never thought of the two films being remotely comparable, but I get it. Anyway, I think the reason people might hypothetically like "The Town" more than "Avatar," despite the former's boilerplate tendencies, is that it has good acting and writing going for it (right?). But "Avatar," minus such apparent disposables as plot and subtext, doesn't have acting to fall back on, and does in fact have 10 foot tall blue people running around.

But really, you've seen "Avatar" multiple times, and I assume in 2-D at home as well? And it holds up for you? Genuinely curious, because I can't imagine sitting through it ever again, whether I liked it or not. Same with "Titanic." Like, pretty sure it would shrink in my estimation.

I actually haven't seen it multiple times, no. just the one theatre sitting.

I don't really think that is fair though as a comparison point though because up until three months ago, my home entertainment system was a piece of shit 5 year old TV and the built-in speakers that came with it.

So you've only seen it once, years ago, and you can honestly say you love "Avatar?"

See it again and get back to us.

I didn't realize love for films was based on the number of times you saw the movie?

pls let me know how many more times I need to watch k thx

still never saw this, do not wear that as a badge of honor, just don't give a fuck either way

can respect dat

I don't understand why people didn't have the uncanny valley problem with this movie.

i love some movies that i've only seen once, but i would definitely watch them again is the difference

Too busy hating cigar-chomping, racist, marine figurehead as he yells "Die! Die!" while shooting poor natives.

i don't full-on love avatar, but i like it a lot. saw it twice in the theater, and have seen it once on big-screen blu-ray since. by the third time through, it was starting to wear a little thin (and long), and absent the 3D, the wow factor drops a bit, but i still enjoyed it and would/will watch it again. and rewatchability isn't the ultimate cinematic virtue anyway. i probably won't watch tarkovsky's solaris too many times in my life, but that takes nothing away from the fact that i love it. anyway, the performances of both leads were quite good, and i loved the "10 foot tall blue people". it's a science fiction movie, and i'm a science fiction fan. giant blue cat people are an unambiguous plus.

i agree that the plot is routine, but cameron's sense of how to construct a narrative is still impeccable. avatar builds effectively, compresses and expands just where it needs to, and pulls of its emotional effects with masterful aplomb. i found both the love story and the popular uprising quite moving. though troublesome with regard to its use of the very tired "white savior" trope, i was also very impressed by the film's political message and commitment. few popular action-adventure movies deal so directly and bravely with contemporary political reality. finally, i think it did a great job of metaphorically telling the awful story of western imperial conquest. that it gave that story a happy ending, that did nothing to blunt its communication of the tragic truth. cameron's poignant fantasy only drives home the differences between the world he imagines and our own. we know that, in real life, countless indigenous peoples annihilated in the process. as a result, i found it a very bittersweet film.

I've been thinking about this movie recently, in regards to its huge success versus John Carter's abysmal failure (box office wise). They both have silly names dotted throughout and CGI alien people on alien worlds, and maybe the jungle paradise of Pandora with its fluorescent floating jellyfish is more appealing, but I would have thought the corny mother-Gaia vibes would have turned a lot of people off. My only real guess is that people say "James Cameron!" and then see Mech Warriors and are like "oh shit, bad ass".

I didn't care for Avatar when I saw in the cinema. I liked some of the visuals and the action scenes more when I saw it in 2D at home, but all the other bits were even worse.

The Town is a sub-Heat crime drama with a terrible ending, but I know a number of 'plebs' who rate it as one of the best movies in recent years because it's about as 'serious drama' as they'll likely see. Also, Renner's Cagney > Everything in Avatar tbh.